For years, my favorite Work Sativa strain has been Green Crack. It wasn’t until I tried Ghost Train Haze that I found a second favorite. Since then, I have grown dozens of Work Sativa strains but not Ghost Train Haze. So last time I was at Aroma Grow Store in Wheeling, I picked up a pack of Ghost Train Haze feminized seeds from Secret Squirrel Seeds.

Ghost Train Haze is a sativa cross of Ghost OG and Neville’s Wreck. I popped the seed in a solo cup and transferred the seedling into a 5-gallon fabric pot. The plant grew symmetrical and stout in the shape of a Christmas tree. The nodes were bunched up and needed a little pruning during vegetation, especially at the bottom.

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The plant stayed a healthy green, with fat nine-finger leaves that almost looked too big for the stout plant. The Ghost Train Haze needed little water and nutrients throughout the grow. My other two plants (Rossetta Stone XX and Burgers n’ Beer) grew twice as fast (even after topping them) as the Ghost Train Haze, so I never topped the plant. In the middle of vegetation, I performed Kyle Kushman’s supercropping and “chiropractic” techniques, including lollipopping the plant about a week before flipping to flower.

During vegetation and flowering, I used Nectar for the Gods nutrient line, SLF-100, Fishshit, and Cultured Biologix no-brew microbial teas. During flower, I grew under a BlackBird light sponsored by HLG. The Ghost Train Haze had a medium stretch and needed to be pruned after the first few weeks, then again late in flower. The buds started out as small round marbles and grew into golf balls. The stem rub provided an earthy skunk and citrus, and the buds were mostly hazy skunk smells. I chopped on day 66 and trimmed the buds before placing them inside my Cool Cure to dry. The plant’s golf-ball shaped buds were easy to trim. After four days of drying and six more curing in the Cool Cure, I placed the buds in mason jars to cure for four weeks.

Stay tuned to Part 2 of this News Joint Grow Journal to see how the final product smoked.

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